Anti-ICE Protests and a “Should Black People Care?” Discussion

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Van and Rachel are joined by Seema Mehta of the Los Angeles Times to address the unrest in L.A. (0:00) Intro (3:11) Cardi B and the Target boycott (8:40) Why Keith Sweat is single at 63 (18:01) Swedish gospel (24:06) Coco Gauff vs. Aryna Sabalenka (30:28) Anti-ICE protests in L.A. (48:16) Seema Mehta joins the show (1:01:02) Should Black people care? (1:26:7) 'Tha Carter VI' Review (1:34:21) Glaze of the Week Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guest: Seema Mehta Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Ashleigh Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, thought warriors.
0:05.8	What is up?
0:06.5	Higher learning is on.
0:07.6	Is Ivan Lacey Jr.
0:08.8	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.
0:11.0	We will just say this at the top.
0:15.3	We are not in studio today because our studios are in downtown Los Angeles.
0:24.3	Hmm.
0:25.9	Downtown Los Angeles is now an area deemed an area of unlawful assembly by the LAPD.
0:39.9	So we were not able to film in person today
0:44.1	because of the ongoing ICE protests
0:47.9	that are happening around the city of Los Angeles.
0:53.7	Yeah.
0:54.9	I mean,
0:57.9	where do we even start?
1:00.5	I don't even know what to say.
1:01.9	I mean, yeah.
1:05.1	Well, that's, I, I, I'm going to get into it.
1:06.8	Yeah, I know we're going to get into it.
1:08.2	I've been gone all weekend.
1:10.4	So to come to be, I haven't even been here in the midst of it to, which I know is a different experience from watching it. I was gone in Chicago this weekend, but to land back in here and to know that we can't even go to our, to, to Spotify because of what is happening it's just yeah it's a lot so let's get into it
1:33.6	or do we do quick hitters you want to do quick hitters we're going to do quick hitters obviously
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